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22 February 2013

the thing that I was certain would never happen ever ever happened last night: Simon had a snow day (night ... ) because of the weather. Apparently the roads were terrible and some of them were even closed but people were having no problem speeeeeding down our little street all evening long so I'll never really know. Of course he had to go in today to relieve the day team that worked overnight but it's a nice change to not feel like death crawling to the microwave for a 30 second zap after a night of 30 stilted minutes of petrified sleep.

What did we do? All things crazy. Made and ate chocolate covered pretzels for dinner, asked Julia to say things like "lion" "laundry" and "look" because she cannot say her L's for the wife of her and we are woving parents. We watched the Downton finale and while the internet had already spoiled it for me - Simon had no idea and kept guessing that Edith committed suicide or that someone accidentally dropped Baby Sybil (if only it were something so trivial ....). The roads are perfectly fine today which is a relief because we are out of all the essentials: bananas, chicken nuggets, yogurt, small diapers, and a breath or 89 of notinsidethisconfoundedhouse air. After I touch up my nail polish (the color of "purpow chocwet" according to J) we'll be making the trek to my favorite warehouse because we can only live on peanut butter on tortilla and peanut butter on spoon for so long.

We haven't watched any of Downton this season (why? I know not. Maybe because I already knew before it started a certain someone wasn't coming back after this season and I didn't want to get more invested?) but I had already heard about the finale (thank you internet). It will be interesting to see Joe's reaction when he finds out.

Anyhow, glad you had a good night. We do the same sort of thing with Grace- I know she'll figure out how to say things correctly eventually, so I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

One of the best things about being a kid= snow days, and one of the worst things about being an adult is that you don't really get snow days, until you do and then it's awesome. And why is the writer of Downton obsessed with doing a certain thing when offspring make their entrance into the world?

Okay, and we don't watch Downton because watching tv together is often our "quality time" and when I finally succumbed to the social pressure to watch it, I turned on this season's premiere (the Christmas one) and about three seconds into it, my husband said, "Oh, accents? I'm just gonna lay down now." So we picked something else. British accents are like Ambien for him.

I can only imagine how sleep deprived you must feel during night float. Austin volunteers as an EMT every Wednesday night in a neighboring small town and I always sleep TERRIBLY (out of fear) when he is gone. Couple that with 3 small children and I can't begin to imagine your exhaustion!

Hi there, new follower from bitesforbabies.com! Looks like you guys had a fun time! Your son loves to do what mine does...he always wants to get in on the action with his new baby sis. Although I find it so sweet that he wants to help, I catch him half the time squeezing her hands, shoving the soother up her nose, etc.! lol!

I thought Anna was going to die and everyone would suspect Bates-thus throwing us back into "did he do it or did he not"? I was perfectly ok with that story line. Or Edith dying. Either would have been fine. But Matthew?? I honestly don't even know if Season 4 will be worth watching.

And I'm glad Simon got stuck at home instead of stuck at the hospital!

My niece can't say her "c" or "k" sounds, and she says them as "t" sounds instead. So of course my husband and I tell her to say "I like kitties" and you can imagine what comes next. We are going to be great parents, I'm sure.

thanks for not spoiling DA for me. We are on Episode 5 here. So, you can read that as: a) we SAVOR good TV or b) we go to bed ridiculously early and have not the energy to fight the chillens for the remote a mere one evening a week. Either choice. I prefer "a", makes us sound so "restrained" and all....